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Kayak & Hike to Underhill Peak
Thank you, Isaac, for organizing this amazing trip! The plan for this Saturday was: Have a group of 6 VOCers meet at Deep Cove, kayak to Thwaytes landing, hike up Underhill Peak, come back and eat Honey’s donuts (of course). … Continue reading
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Tagged april, car-free, day trip, daytrip, Deep Cove, hiking, kayaking, Small Group, whisky
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Comox Glacier Trip, September 6th, 2019
We went to Comox Glacier on this deactivated logging road that really bugs me when my dad’s driving on it because your head bouncing on the seat cushion feels like somebody is hammering your head. I got carsick and I … Continue reading
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Tagged backcountry, Comox, Crevasse, daytrip, Glacier, hike, hiking, ridge, ski, skiing, Small Group, Snow, summer
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Two Dudes and a Needle
After trying and failing to write at least five prior TR’s, I’ve finally kicked one out the door. Amazing. Plan for the long weekend was originally to summit Whitecap, that fell apart when the weather report was briefly really bad … Continue reading
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Tagged Blanchard Needle, daytrip, Intermediate, scrambling, Small Group
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Companion Rescue Drills
Saturday December 2nd, 8 VOC members went towards Garibaldi Provincial Park for some avalanche rescue practice, skiing and touring. The morning weather in Vancouver was rainy, which indicated potential snowy weather in the mountains. The group gathered at McDonalds in … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged avalanchetraining, backcountry, day trip, daytrip, early season, Garibaldi Park, pauls ridge, powder, Red Heather, ski, ski touring, skiing, skitouring, Snowy, Winter
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Stairs: An account of the Baden Powell Trail
After waking up at the obscenely early time of 5:30am on a Saturday, I made my way to the bus stop, hopped on to the first bus that came by and struggled not to fall asleep as I made my … Continue reading
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Tagged Baden Powell, Baden Powell trail, beginner, beginner-friendly, car-free, day hike, day trip, Dayhiking, daytrip, Deep Cove, ferry, Grouse Mountain, Lynn creek, Lynn valley, Mid Group, North Vancouver, Quarry Rock, rainy, Rainy Day, Spring, sunny, type 2 fun
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Crevasse rescue practice June 2016
Caitlin Schneider and I (Julien Renard) went to the Wedgemount glacier to practise crevasse rescues. Are you confident travelling on a glacier? Can you self-arrest? Can you rescue people out of a crevasse? While these are perfectly valid questions to … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Other, Special Reports, Trip Reports
Tagged 2wd, Crevasse, Crevasse Rescue, Data Report, daytrip, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, Glacier School, Hauling, Rescue, self-arrest, Snow and Ice, Wedge
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Skypilot Scramble, August 2016
Participants: Jonah Adelman, Amin Aziznia, Enrique Cabon, and Mirko Moeller Date: August 27th, 2016 Recently settling in at UBC and it’s Jumpstart program for international students, I thought scrambling in Squamish sounded like a satisfying way to introduce myself … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Trip Reports
Tagged daytrip, First-Time, Glacier, mountaineering, scramble, scrambling, Sea to Summit, Skypilot, Squamish
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Blackcomb-Currie daytrip
Saturday, April 2nd. Normally, when trying to do a new (to me) ski traverse as a day-trip I end up spending far more time researching/planning the trip than I do on the trip itself (I think, for Tantalus it might … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged bivouac, Climb, climbing, daytrip, Face, Glacier, hiking, hitchhiking, McBride, ski, ski traverse, skiing, Snow, summer, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, toddler, traverse, Weekend, Whistler
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Good times on bad rock-Blanchard Needle in July.
Rising to a modest 1550m, Blanchard is not the tallest of the peaks in the area, but to me it always held significance as the pointy objective in my own backyard. I see it driving back home to PoCo, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, Blanchard Needle, daytrip, Golden Ears, Intermediate, scramble, Small Group, summer
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The Black Tusk Trail Race: 25k of fun (but wet) running!
Black Tusk Trail Race [Sept 19, 2015] By Birgit Rogalla, Elliott Skierszkan and Micheal Stone Intro: While many of us VOC’ers spend our weekends rambling about the mountains, there is a select few of us who decided to join Artem … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, autumn, beginner-friendly, Black Tusk, Chekamus, daytrip, Garibaldi Park, Mid Group, Mud, rain, trail race, trail running
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